Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great winter break and is
enjoying their 3.5% salary increase you should have seen in your
Dec 1, 2018 paycheck!

In other good news, our new Governor has increased funding for
the CSU at an unprecedented level in his initial budget proposal
for 2019-20.

Gov. Newsom’s proposal includes an additional $562 million
dollars for our university system.

$300 million is in new ongoing general fund monies

$262 is one-time funding for deferred maintenance and various
programs including programs that will help to address food and
housing insecurity for our students.

Locally, your CFA officers have been making plans for various workshops and events for
our campus. We will be hosting monthly faculty
luncheons again this semester. The first luncheon is
scheduled for February 19 in the Vintage Room,
11-1.

We are planning several useful workshops for
faculty including a benefits workshop, lecturer rights
workshop, and a workshop focused on reducing student loan debt
for our faculty.

We are also making plans to bring Professor
Dana Cloud to campus for a lecture. Professor Cloud,
has the distinction of being one of the first professors targeted
by Turning Point USA and placed on the Professor Watchlist. She
has written an interesting article on the rhetoric of civility
and its possible dangers to academic freedom. I think she offers
an important counterpoint to dominant discourses that call for
civility without consideration of ongoing structural inequalities
and power dynamics. We are sponsoring her visit in the hopes of
keeping the conversation going.